Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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4129That the Moon may be a World. you may ſee ſundry Diſcourſes more at large
11In opere 6.
dierum
.
diſput
. 5.
In
lib. de
Mundi

conſtit
.
in Ludovicus Molina, Euſebius Nirembergius,
with
divers others.
The Venerable Bede
thought
the Planets to conſiſt of all the four
Elements
;
and ’tis likely that the other parts
are
of an Aerous Subſtance, as will be ſhewed
after
wards;
however, I cannot now ſtand to re-
cite
the Arguments for either;
I have only
urged
theſe Authorities to countervail Ariſtotle,
and
the School-Men, and the better to make
way
for a proof of their Corruptibility.

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